Cobblestone gingerbread cookies

Here it goes another recipe for gingerbread cookies. This one is more economical, there is only 100g of honey, but the structure is more traditional than Alpine gingerbread cookies. They are heavier and they are slightly quicker to make. The coffee icing makes them more special. My friend couldn't stop eating them. Enjoy! Cobblestone gingerbread …

Polish Alpine gingerbread cookies (pierniczki jak alpejskie)

  I tell you a secret, I'm not a big fan of homemade Polish gingerbread cookies, they always were too dry for me, but the store-bought ones are a different story - soft and light, filled with jam, or not. This recipe really delivers, it promises light and easy gingerbread cookies, almost like the store-bought.  If …

Simple Polish gingerbread cookies

I don't know what it is about Christmas that makes you feel this urge to make cookies. My Facebook feed is filled with friends' declarations like "I've promised myself I'm not making any Christmas cookies this year, but oops I did it again". I'm no better. We don't need too many cookies. One tin would be …

Lavender and honey bread

Maybe if I lived in a country where good quality bread is easy to find I wouldn't make my own bread. We will never know, as I already got a bug. There is something addictive about bread making. Probably it is a smell of freshly baked bread, a tiny hiss you hear in a crust or just a …

Strawberries from the childhood

Whenever I think about summer months when I was a child I see big baskets of strawberries. At the beginning of a summer I would eat strawberries straight from a bush, but as the days went by my eagerness towards them would die out slowly. One of the reasons would be the abundance, they were brought over from an allotment every single day. My mom would encourage me …

Poppy seed roll (makowiec)

So after months of excitement, preparation, Christmas shopping, Christmas cooking, Christmas is officially over. Thursday was my first day at work after the Christmas break. Christmas decorations were taken down and Christmas tree was left naked in the corner. It was quite a sad sight. I feel in between seasons now, we had winter, then …

Traditional Polish Christmas Gingerbread

Before I started blogging, I would never have thought about making a gingerbread dough or any dough and leaving it for 2 months in a fridge. Well, that sounds scary, doesn't it? I kind of know what am I doing now just by a simple fact, I tried a similar recipe for maturing gingerbread cookies 2 …

Homemade ginger tea

It starts to be this time of year when I get a cold more often. The air gets colder, people start to sneeze around you and before I notice I feel under the weather. I've only learnt how to make ginger tea when I came to Ireland. One of the girls that I shared an apartment …

Easy salads and mustard and honey dressing

I started blogging to learn new things and save good recipes I used. It works really well for me, I often tend to browse through my archive to find a recipe I used to make, but there is a lot of small tips and tiny recipes that tend to be lifesavers, but I barely ever …

Easy strawberry ice cream

Ice cream. Such a nice summer treat. In my head when I explain what type of ice cream I like I talk first about my favourite flavours, so when I was smaller I loved flavours like chocolate, walnuts, pistachios. Now I'm more into basic -  vanilla or strawberries will do, although in Italy I've learnt I …